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» FEATURED: Spring Cleaning in Winter – How’s That for Planning Ahead? (10 Key Business Analysis Trends to Guide You in 2010)

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Spring Cleaning in Winter – How’s That for Planning Ahead? (10 Key Business Analysis Trends to Guide You in 2010)

This year, organizations will be picking themselves up and dusting themselves off, becoming more savvy, agile and proactive. Business analysts are well positioned to help organizations meet the challenges of putting their houses back in order by helping to answer the question: “How and where do we create efficiencies that will help mitigate the sti...

» FEATURED: Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice

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Using Extreme Inspections to Significantly Improve Requirements Practice

Extreme Inspections are a low-cost, high-improvement way to assure specification quality, effectively teach good specification practice, and make informed decisions about the requirements specification process and its output, in any project. The method is not restricted to be used on requirements analysis related material; this article however is l...

» FEATURED: Ditch Your Business Rules? Five Reasons Why and How

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Ditch Your Business Rules? Five Reasons Why and How

Does the business perceive business rules as a true organizational asset? Are they visible, valuable, and universally accepted as data is? Above all, does business rule management attract and sustain enterprise-wide high-level management attention?

» Complex Project Management - What’s All the Fuss About?

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Complex Project Management - What’s All the Fuss About?

Complex Project Management (CPM) is the “next new thing” in our quest to achieve stronger project performance. Successful projects not only deliver on time, on budget, and with the full scope of features and functions. In addition, they deliver the expected benefits in terms of contributions to the bottom line of businesses. And projects today are ...

» Planning your own BA Succession

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If you've ever been a manager or above in a corporation, you've probably been exposed to the concept of Succession Planning. The basic idea is that all managers should have some idea of who is willing and able to step into your shoes once you are promoted into a new position or change your career focus... It is something that I think is often overl...

» FEATURED: BAs Will Falter Until They Learn to Discover REAL, Business Requirements

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BAs Will Falter Until They Learn to Discover REAL, Business Requirements

Widely-accepted conventional requirements models continue to create creep—changes to settled requirements which are a major cause of project overruns. Business Analysts and others will continue to encounter such creep so long as they follow flawed models focusing on requirements of a product or system being created without adequately also discoveri...

» FEATURED: What Every Business Analyst Needs to Know About Rulebook Management

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What Every Business Analyst Needs to Know About Rulebook Management

The goal of rulebook management is to give business workers and business analysts the ability to access and manage decision logic directly. The focus is on the kinds of challenges these business workers and analysts face on a day-in and day-out basis.

» FEATURED: From Research to Implementation: Use Case Diagrams – Usage and Benefits

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From Research to Implementation: Use Case Diagrams – Usage and Benefits

Some people use them. Some people don't use them. Some people create them using sophisticated tools. Some use basic drawing programs. As part of the Unified Modeling Language, Use Case diagrams are often the starting point for many software projects. However, questions about Use Case diagrams still linger in the minds of many Business Analysts...

» FEATURED: Evolving the Decision Model With Views

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Every project in which we have implemented the Decision Model has seemed to bring further proof that – in the world of business logic or business rules, it seems to create a frictionless environment. We see “Ah ha!” moments time and again when people realize the simplicity to which their complex logic or business rules may be reduced by applying th...

» FEATURED: Top Tips for Successful SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Pilots

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Top Tips for Successful SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) Pilots

We are often asked what you need to do to run a successful SOA Pilot. Based on our experience of dozens of pilots, I propose that the following characteristics are essential to success.

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